Mail box



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Attornqy June 16, 1931. QUINN 1,810,058

MAIL BOX F'il ed July 14, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Attornqy Patented June 16, 1931 I I UNETEQ stares tears easier: g

DAVID QUINN, OF EA'U JLAIR E, WISCON i i I I MAIL Boxi,"

Application. filed July 14, 1928. Serial No. 282,822.

The present invention has reference to a therein, as at 10, a door 1'1,to swing on averti mail object and its prime object is to procal axis. A" spring 12-is engaged with the vide a structure whereby a mail box may be door and when the door is closed engagesthe mounted on the outside of a house or the like, front" wall 8, and tends to slightly open the I and has a lock associated therewith which is door so that it may be readily opened by a operable only from the inside of the house so person when released, as hereinafter do"- as to afford access tothe mail box. scribed. The free edge of the door is pro- For instance, it is intended that the box vided with an L-shaped' extension 14. A

shall be mounted on the exterior wall of a spring catch 15 is mounted on the rearwall H building or analogous structure or any Wall 6 to engage the extension'l l-andh'old the accessible to the mail man. door in a closed position.

The mail box is constructedso as to provide The tube 16 extends from the re'ar wall -6 that it cannot be opened except by operation through an opening in the supporting wall from within the building and from a point 17 and slidably supports aplunger 18, which inaccessible to any person other than the is held, in a predetermined position by a owner. It is preferable, of course, that the spring member 19. This plunger may be mail box be mounted adjacent the door, so pushed inwardly to release the catch lofrom that the authorized person may release the the extension 14, so that the spring 12 willlocking mechanism with one hand and open partially'open the door so that the door-may I,

the door of the mail box with the other. be readily opened the rest of the way to afford A still further very important object of the access into the interior of the box. The rear invention resides in the provision of a mail wall 6 is provided with flanges 20 at'the upbox of the nature which is exceedingly simperandlowerends thereof which are screwed ple in its construction, inexpensive to manuto the supporting walls 17 as is indicated at 5 'facture, strong and durable, thoroughly effi- 21. The front wall 8 is provided with a cient and reliable in use, and otherwise Well transverse opening 22. A rod 23 extends beadapted to the purpose for which it is detween the side walls 7 at the upper edge of signed. the opening 22 and rockably supports a clo- With the above and numerous other objects sure 24, for the opening 22. This closure 33 in view, as will appear as the description prohas projections 25 to limit the outward move- V ceeds, the invention resides in certain novel ment thereof and is adapted to abut projecfeatures of constructlon, and in the combinations 26 on one side wall 7 to limit the inward tion and arrangement of parts as W11]. be heremovement thereof.

inafter more fully described and claimed. As is shown in Figure 3 a deflector wall 28 535 V In the drawings: is provided in the box, with which mail may Figure 1 is a side elevation of the box enrengage when the closure 24- is forced open bodying the features of my invention. so that the mail will be directed downwardly Figure 2 is a front elevation thereof. in the box.

Figure 3 is a transverse horizontal section From the above detailed description it taken substantially on the line 33 of Figure will be seen that I have devised a box which 1, and 7 may be, for example mounted on the wall of Figure 4 is a detail vertical section taken the house adjacent the front door. substantially on the line 4.4.- of Figure 2. The mail carrier may place the mail in the Referring to the drawingsin detail, it will box and the owner of the house may open the beseenthat the box is constructed ofabottom door 11 by pressing in on the plunger 18 5, a rear wall 6, a side wall 7 at one end of-the from the inside of the house and then come bottom and rear wall (i, and a front wall 8, out and complete the opening of the door rising from the bottom between the forward 11. Obviously, the mail box may be used edges of theside wall 7 and the top 9. The in many other different ways and still remain 53 side, which is opened has hingedly mounted within the scope of the invention. 7

The present embodiment of the invention has been disclosed merely for the purpose of exemplification, since in actual practice it attains the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and the above description.

It will be apparent that changes in the details of construction, and in the combination and arrangement of parts may be resorted to, without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed or sacrificing any ofits advantages.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new is:

A mail box having a spring actuated door, an L-shaped extension disposed adjacent the free edge of the door, a spring catch having a lateral end portion anchored to one Wall of the box and having a free end portion disposed in spaced parallelism to said one Wall and provided with means engageable With said L-shaped extension for normally retaining the door in a closed position, a plunger slidable through said one Wall of the box and having its inner end normally spaced from the last referred to end portion of said spring catch, a spring secured intermediate its ends to the outer end of said plunger, said spring having opposite end portions fixedto a suitable support remote from said one Wall of the mail box, and having at its intermediate portion normally flexed outwardly from the support for normally urging said plunger in a direction away from said last mentioned end portion of said spring catch.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature.

DAVID QUINN. 

